Chaotic Christmas Countdown Day 38

Chaotic Christmas Countdown

Day 38

I have had a few of my friends comment to me that I am really "on top of things" this year!!! HAHA!!!  It may seem that way on this blog but hence the name RANDEE'S ORGANIZED CHAOS.....there is a LOT OF CHAOS going on in the HALLMARK HOME!!!!

I start something and my "ADD" kicks in and I will start something else and completely forget about what I was doing before!!  SOOOOOOOO, my ENTIRE house is in COMPLETE CHAOS and I will NOT answer my door if you stop by!!!  I will scream for the kids to be quiet and hide!!  

I know down deep inside that it will all be ok but at this point I just want to run, hide and MAYBE have a LARGE glass of wine!!!  ;)

This is all leading up to today's feature!!  I am BACK to wrapping and I walked past a piece of burlap in the garage and thought "WHY NOT???" I headed upstairs to continue and PREVIOUS project!!!  LOL!!

I took pieces of burlap and pulled them up around the presents and tied them with some yarn!!  I then used my Cricut to cut out an initial and tied with the yarn!

The other box in the pic, I started wrapping like a present and hot glued the back together (where you would normally add tape) and then gathered the ends and tied with yarn!!  Makes it look like a piece of candy!!!  I think they are AWESOME!!!

SEE you tomorrow for
DAY 39!!!

Chaotic Christmas Countdown Day 37

Chaotic Christmas Countdown

Day 37

Tonight I am featuring Nathaniel's Christmas Tree!!!  He is SOOOOO SUPER DUPER excited!!!  He helped me decorate it and he wants to leave the lights on all of the time!! 

He LOVES Thomas the Train so he wanted a THOMAS TREE!!  He has a million Thomas the Trains so we took some of them and hung them on his tree and then of course THOMAS is the tree topper!  He then wanted a Thomas track that my brother gave him to go "around and around" his tree!!  I think it turned out

SOOOOOO STINKIN CUTE!!!!!

I want you to get ONE thing from this post.....you only have a few precious years of childhood innocence!!!  So enjoy the sweet joys of every day and CHRISTMAS!!!!!

See you tomorrow for

Day 38!!!

Chaotic Christmas Countdown Day 36

Chaotic Christmas Countdown

Day 36

Today is an easy one!!!  I started wrapping our presents and I think they turned out

PRETTY STINKIN CUTE!!!!!



This year I am keeping it simple!!  I have too much other stuff going on in my house!!  I used white butcher paper and yarn!!!  I have some ribbon but mainly yarn!!  I also had some green paper in the attic that I needed to use so I wrapped some in green!!  I used my CRICUT machine to cute out the names!!! 

I LOVE the way they are turning out!!  I have a few wrapped in brown shipping paper but I do not have the bows on them yet!!!  ;)

See you tomorrow for

DAY 37!!!!

PHOTOGRAPHER I am NOT!!!

Photography

I am a crafty, artsy, fartsy person NOT a photographer!!!  So when I started taking pictures for my blog I thought how hard can taking a picture really be??  I mean all you have to do is POINT AND SHOOT.....RIGHT??????  WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! Once I figured out that this was NOT the case, I knew that I had some challenging days ahead of me BUT I had NO IDEA how challenging taking pic's could possibly be!!!! 

I have a friend, who is a professional photographer, call and tell me that I could make all of the beautiful stuff I wanted but if I didn't take a good pic of it, it won't amount to anything!!  I won't mention my friends name....COUGH, Dianna Baker, COUGH, but WOW she is BRUTALLY honest!!!  ;)  And I LOVE that about her!!!! :)
So today she spent her lunch hour talking to me on the phone about just how BAD my photography skills really are and TRYING (key word) to HELP me!!!  After much explaining and MAYBE a few curse words later....OK, there were a few bad words, I think my NEW picture turned out AWESOME!!!!!!

Ok.....I think I am going to give up my "DAY JOB" and become a professional photographer!!!!!!!!

What you say??????  It is ONLY one pic????  BUT it is a VERY GOOD PIC!!!!!  ;)

All kidding aside, I am VERY fortunate to have my Dianna and I want to THANK her for walking me through my ONE AWESOME PICTURE!!!!!!

Chaotic Christmas Day 35

Hi!!  My name is Randee and I am from
Randee's Organized Choas!!  I am SUPER DUPER excited to be a guest at Blissful and Domestic!!!  I LOVE to decorate and make anything CRAFTY but there is ALWAYS CHOAS in my life!!  I am in the middle of my
80 DAY CHAOTIC CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN 
I hope that you enjoy my No Sew Christmas Tree Skirt Tutorial and will come and FOLLOW ALONG the CHOAS!!!

ENJOY!!!




Chaotic Christmas Countdown

Day 35

WOW.....this little "PROJECT" has cost me some time and some SKIN!!!!  I now have 3rd degree burns to my fingers and permanent creases between my eyebrows.....OK.....maybe I already had those but I would like to blame them on something besides my age!!!  ;)

I will give you the "how to" on wrapping the presents in an upcoming post!!

So without anything further, I give you my

NO SEW TREE SKIRT!!!!  My inspiration was on HGTV!

AWESOME, HUH?????

Ok...tutorial!!!

Materials Needed

4-1/2' x 4-1/2' piece of canvas

measuring tape

5 yards of fabric (I bought 1 yard of each design)

scissors

fray-blocking glue

grosgrain ribbon

hot glue gun and hot glue sticks

Using a tape measure, mark and cut a square of canvas that is approximately 4-1/2' x 4-1/2'
(Image 1).

Fold the square into quarters, then over itself to form a triangle with the folded center at point. Cut base in a quarter circle (Image 2 and 3)

Cut a small quarter circle out of the point (Image 4)Open the skirt until it's folded in half and cut along the radius on one side of the center hole only (Image 5) This will provide a hole for the tree trunk and a slit in the fabric so the skirt can be placed under the tree.

Tip: I used a canvas painter's drop cloth!!!!!!

Apply no-fray glue along all raw edges and allow to dry!!

NEXT

Maesure and cut your fabric that you are making your ruffles out of lenghtwise into approx 2 inch strips!

Apply a line of hot glue approximately 1 1/2 inches from outside edge of skirt. Create ruffles by pinching fabric with fingers and pushing gathers down onto hot glue!  Work in small sections, I just did one good squeeze with the glue gun down the fabric! (See pic's below) Then continue this process around the entire skirt edge!  Start the next row approximately 1 1/2 inches above the previous row. Continue adding rows until you reach a point that you just don't think you can take another row!!!  ;)



When I thought that I was going to have to start drinking, I decided to add a large piece of fabric to the middle and add a few more rows until I met up with it!!

This is what it looked like when I added the fabric and cut a hole for the center!

When you make your circle, turn the tree skirt over and cut slits into the fabric hanging over and then glue them down!!!  This will give a clean finish!!

Cut 10 pieces of grosgrain ribbon into approximately 12-inch lengths. Use hot glue to attach ribbon to underside of tree skirt along slit created in canvas base. Evenly space five on one side of slit and five directly opposite. Place skirt under tree and tie ribbons together in bows!!!

I have to say that it turned out AWESOME but I will not be making another one anytime soon!!!! 

If you have any questions, PLEASE contact me!!!  ;) 

THANK YOU, DANIELLE!!!

See you tomorrow for

Day 36!!!!!

Chaotic Christmas Day 34

Chaotic Christmas

Day 34

Today I have spent over 6 SOLID hours working on a "project" that is NOT even half way done!!!  I am exhausted and my lower back is KILLING ME!!!!! 

HEY....I can see you ROLLING your eyes!!!  ;)

Ok..so I did not have anything for dinner and I remembered My "PING" telling me about an easy chicken recipe so I called her and got the recipe!!!!

We will call it

"SPRING CHICKEN" 

I KNOW.....I am HILARIOUS!!!!  ;)

RECIPE

9x13 pan sprayed

lay your chicken breast in pan and dust with garlic powder!  I used 3 for our family but you could use more!

Cover each breast with a slice of swiss cheese

mix 1/2 cup milk and 1 can cream of chicken and pour over the chicken

Then take 2 cups Pepperidge Farm stuffing and cover chicken

Drizzle with 2-4 tablespoons of butter

Bake 350 for around 55 minutes!

It was DELICIOUS!!!!!!

See you tomorrow for

CHAOTIC CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN

DAY 35!!!

Ps...Say a prayer for my HOT GLUE BURNS!!!!

PSS...I am not even 1/2 way done

PSSS.....I BETTER get a MAJOR response when I post the "project" after all of the pain I have been through!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!